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Social Movements

Howard Ramos author Suzanne Staggenborg author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Oxford University Press, Canada

Published:29th Oct '15

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Social Movements, third edition, is a core or supplemental text suitable for upper-year undergraduate social movements courses offered out of sociology, labour studies, and political science departments in both colleges and universities. It offers a concise yet comprehensive introduction to the field's historical background and major theories. Key issues are explored in the context of specific social movements and counter-movements active within Canada and around the world, showing how these movements originate, mobilize participants, and bring about social change. Chapters on the women's, Indigenous, LGBT, environmental, and global justice movements reveal exactly how these groups maximized their resources to attract followers and further their goals. The text also discusses the cluster of protest movements that arose in many countries in the 1960s and how the strategies and changes implemented then continue to influence collective action in the twenty-first century. The third edition is enhanced with photographs to help students visualize various social movements and includes content on recent movements such as the Arab Spring, Idle No More, the Quebec student movement, and Occupy.

"The strength of the text is the efficiency with which it delivers a near encyclopedic breadth of coverage." --Gary Bowden, University of New Brunswick "Social Movements is an excellent anchor for a course on social movements. . . . In the end, it is likely to encourage students to delve deeper and want to read more." --Lesley Wood, York University

ISBN: 9780199013975

Dimensions: 228mm x 155mm x 13mm

Weight: 334g

264 pages

3rd Revised edition